Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...include at least one American author in the list of those from whose works you select the subjects for your entrance examinations in English literature. Is there none in all the list who is worthy of such recognition by a leading American college, or is it the deliberate judgment of Harvard College that acquaintance with American literature is wholly unnecessary and valueless as a part of the education of American...
...Putnam's Sons have just issued "Baron Munchausen" in the Knicker-bocker Nuggets Series. The adventures are selected with judgment from the best English and German editions of the experiences of the noted traveler and sight-seer. The illustrations are good and profuse...
...ideal newspaper will, in my judgment, print all the news-carefully discriminating, however, ascertained fact from rumor and from conjecture, giving to each subject space and importance in proportion to its just value relatively to other subjects, in the eyes of an intelligent, high-minded and broad minded public, and never considering who or what will be helped or harmed by the publication of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The ideal journal's statements of fact will never be colored by prejudice, passion, bombast or humor (so called,) but will be rigorously exact, and will...
...judgment, the journals of to-day are good or bad in so far as they more or less closely resemble the ideal journal I have tried to describe; and the 'tone of the modern press' can be improved by following the lines suggested above. These are the best answers I can make at this moment to your first and second questions...
Alexander Duncan, class of '25, Yale, has just given $20,000 to the college to be used according to the judgment of the corporation. Trinity College has also received a gift of $50,000 without conditions of any kind. The gift was from the estate of the late S. M. Buckingham of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. But Exeter fares better than the colleges by receiving a gift of $110,000 from the will of the late F. E. Parker. The Yale Theological School has also been remembered, for by the will of the late Emily W. Colton, on the death...